Morphological discrimination of two genetic groups of a Japanese salamander, Hynobius naevius (Amphibia, Caudata)

Zoological Science

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1229-1244

  Tominaga, Atsushi ^a   Matsui, Masafumi ^a,b   Nishikawa, Kanto ^a   Tanabe, Shingo ^b   Sato, Shin'ichi ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cryptic species; Distribution; Morphometrics; Sympatry; Systematics

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; JAPAN; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAIL; TOOTH;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; JAPAN; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PIGMENTATION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TAIL; TOOTH; URODELA;

AMPHIBIA; AMPHIUMA MEANS; CAUDATA; HYNOBIUS;

EID: 32044445796     PISSN: 02890003     EISSN: 02890003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2108/zsj.22.1229     Document Type: Article

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